Mike Squires

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Squires
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Dec 28, 1971(1971-12-28)
Age	53
Birthplace	Concord
Country	United States
Birth City	Concord
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mike Squires Biography

Mike Squires is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on December 28, 1971 in Concord, Concord, United States. Squires was born in Concord, California on December 28, 1971. He moved around frequently as a child, attending various grade schools before eventually settling in Granite Falls, Washington. He joined the Marines before eventually moving to Seattle, Washington.

After taking some time off following the success of their previous album and the single “Flagpole Sitta”, Harvey Danger decided to regroup and record the follow-up to Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? with the result being King James Version released in September 2000. For the album’s supporting tour, Squires was added as the group’s live guitarist as well as The Western State Hurricanes founder John Roderick on keyboard. During his time in the group, Squires recorded some demos with the band however they remain unreleased.

After Alien Crime Syndicate regrouped, Squires successfully auditioned for the position of second guitarist. They recorded the album XL from Coast to Coast in 2002 released through Nabil Ayers’ label The Control Group (which was then picked up and released by V2). The album featured a Japanese bonus track cover off Elton John’s “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” recorded with Duff McKagan and Kim Warnick, and toured in support of the album. Squires left the band sometime before the recording of Ten Songs in the Key of Betrayal.

Squires contributed guitar and bass tracks for The Long Winters first record, The Worst You Can Do Is Harm, on the track “Scent of Lime”, however his strict conditions of his parole at the time, as well his involvement with other bands, prohibited him from joining the band until 2005 where he played with the group for less than a year before departing.

In 1997, Squires joined the Nevada Bachelors, a group formed by Robb Benson. The band’s lineup was rounded up by bassist Ben Brunn and drummer Dusty Hayes. They released debut album Carrots & So On in 1998 through Pop Llama Records with a sound reminiscent of The Police. They toured in support of the album and played shows in their native Seattle supporting Death Cab for Cutie in 1998 and Fountains of Wayne in 1999. The presidents of the United States of America drummer Jason Finn joined the group replacing Dusty Hayes. The group recorded and released their second and last album Hello Jupiter in 2000 and toured in support.

Mike Squires Net Worth

Mike Squires is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Squires 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mike Squires (born December 28, 1971 in Concord, California) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist in the hard rock group Loaded, the group led by Velvet Revolver and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan.

During his early career, Squires formed or joined a number of groups but with little or no releases. One of his first musical ventures was a jam band named Eat the Feeling, where he played bass; they recorded a CD in 1993 which was released in 1994. Next was the Minutemen influenced group, Compass, where they recorded a few demos, and Suttree, a Country/pop influenced group. Squires and Darius Minwalla, future drummer for The Posies, attempted to put a band together, recording demos in the process, however they eventually moved on to other projects.

While recording for The Long Winters, Squires added additional guitar parts for Loaded’s debut album Dark Days, with Duff McKagan, Geoff Reading and Dave Dederer, which was released in the United States and Japan in July 2001. It was later released in Europe in July 2002. Loaded announced three dates at the House of Blues taking place in Anaheim, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and West Hollywood, California in November. Before these shows, Squires officially joined the group as lead guitarist and was joined by Alien Crime Syndicate bassist Jeff Rouse. In January 2002, Loaded announced a string of dates in the United States and Japan. During one of the shows, in Los Angeles, Loaded were joined onstage by The Cult duo Billy Duffy and Matt Sorum, also formerly of Guns N’ Roses. After these shows, Squires left Loaded to join bandmate Rouse in Alien Crime Syndicate and was replaced by former Wasted Youth and Electric Love Hogs guitarist Dave Kushner. When Loaded went on a semi-hiatus, still playing shows occasionally, following the formation of Velvet Revolver both Squires and Rouse returned to the group.

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During the years of 2011-2014 Mike taught private guitar, flute and Haitian dance lessons at The Guitar Store in Seattle. Originally he assumed he was interviewing for the job at Cornish University as the owner of said establishment arranged to have Mike meet him in a vacant classroom on campus. He took the position anyhow as his parole agreement usually does not allow him to teach in the State of Washington. When not rocking the free world, Mike also enjoys painting with watercolors, training poodles to act like weasels and imitating Pee-Wee Herman at Starbucks.

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Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mike Squires celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.